The San Jose City Council has approved Councilmember Omar Torres’ “illness” excuse for missing its Oct. 8 meeting as a criminal probe in potential sexual misconduct involving mino…
San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres listens to a question following a rally in front of San Jose City Hall to express concerns over Mayor Matt Mahan’s plan to reallocate Measure E funds in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. San Jose city leaders stripped Councilmember Omar Torres of his committee assignments Tuesday, as the District 3 representative defies calls for his resignation amid a police probe involving illicit messages allegedly Torres sent referencing minors.
“I’m not happy with the situation we’re in,” Mahan said. “It’s not fair to the community … I believe Councilmember Torres is holding his seat hostage and denying representation to 100,000 residents in District 3. We’ve called on him to resign, at the same time, after getting some insight from the city attorney, I personally am not interested in litigating whether or not he was sick two weeks ago.”
But Torres has disappeared from the public eye — missing multiple City Council and committee meetings, along with other official events involving his district — since news of the investigation surfaced. “This absence is particularly detrimental to our work, given the critical role of the San Jose Public Library under the leadership of and the City in planning and implementing its historic Children and Youth Master Plan,” a letter from the San Jose Library Commission stated in support of the decision.
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